Archive for the Brew Reviews Category
Posted on June 11, 2010 by mike
I came out of institutionalization today to a drizzly mid day. I have to be honest, it was exactly how I felt. Things have been depressing and quite frankly, crappy all around. But I was struck with a realization that pierced my brain and instantly cheered me up. I had been on a three day hiatous from drinking because of the medical study I was…
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Posted on June 4, 2010 by mike
I was fortunate enough to actually find some local craft beer in Japan at a placed called Roti’s House which houses the Harvestmoon brewery. This brewery is located in the Ikspairi resort right outside of the Disneyland Tokyo. Directions to Roti’s House and Harvestmoon Brewery (These directions assume you have a JR Pass. If not, the subway…
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Posted on May 28, 2010 by mike
I was given a bit of shit for my “Antelope or Gazelle” review of Big Sky’s IPA but this time I know its a goat. You know why? Cuz it says it! That’s right, this week I am doing another Big Sky Beer. Scape Goat Pale Ale. I don’t normally do a beer from the same brand, mainly because I’m trying to work with these breweries to get more information so…
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Posted on May 14, 2010 by mike
Schells Brewery has been around since 1860 and has a very interesting back story. I was lucky enough to spend a night with Schell’s President Ted Marti while we ate dinner and talked about beers. One of the beers he mentioned was their specialty 150th Anniversary beer, the “Hopfenmalz”. This beer was voted by 1,000’s of people to be the…
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Posted on May 7, 2010 by mike
I continue on the IPA path for at least one more week. We will see where next week lands us. Today I’m going to introduce to you a brewery that you may have never heard of, Big Sky Brewing out of Missoula, MT. This brewery is one of the closests breweries to my house, which is still a good 800 miles away. Started in 1995, this brewery is only 15…
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Posted on April 30, 2010 by mike
These past few weeks have been nothing but IPA’s, but I think its good to center around single style right now, just so that we can really compare, side by side, the differences between them all. I really don’t know why I chose IPA to start with. It could be because there are so many craft beer drinkers that IPA is just their beer of choice, and I…
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